| Back in the day, when it was a dream
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| Nobody believed in what I could be
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| But now I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha»
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| 'Cause I’ma be okay
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| Back in the day, when it was a dream
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| Nobody believed in what I could be
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| But now I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha»
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| 'Cause I’ma be okay
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| I used to have a dream, now it seem that I’ma live it in real life
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| Gettin' free jeans, good weed, feelin' real nice
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| Used to think that I was too short or too dumb
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| Just a newcomer to the game tryna do somethin'
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| Used to runnin' after ice cream trucks
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| But now I just stroll, lace my Nikes up
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| I’m a nice, clean cut, good lookin' individual
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| Fillin' up a notebook with rhymes when I be in the school
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| Learn quick that nobody here invincible
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| We feel big, but in reality, we minuscule
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| Try and make a million bucks before I reach my pinnacle
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| Supernova status from basically invisible
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| Growin' up thinkin' it was cool to be a criminal
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| Until I saw a couple homies go down
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| See, now that isn’t me or anything I’m finna be
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| I want the money, cars, hoes, clothes, a kid can dream
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| I used to talk to girls that wasn’t even into me
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| Now they hit me up wantin' intimacy
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| But nah, I got a girl and she down for me
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| My little Juliet chillin' on the balcony
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| If I need it, she gon' run a hundred miles for me
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| Love me for me, not who I’m 'bout to be
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| And if they didn’t believe, then I can do without 'em
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| 'Cause at the end of the day I’m just Malcolm
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| Back in the day, when it was a dream
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| Nobody believed in what I could be
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| But now I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha»
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| 'Cause I’ma be okay
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| Back in the day, when it was a dream
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| Nobody believed in what I could be
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| But now I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha"(Yeah)
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| 'Cause I’ma be okay (Hey, hey)
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| Just a little snotty nose tryna find his pot of gold
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| Stayin' up late on the phone, always callin' hoes
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| Never thought I’d blow, no one took me serious
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| Now they see me walkin' down the street like, «Oh, there he is»
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| As a kid, anything was possible
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| But mama knows the hottest flow don’t put me on the honor roll
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| Grades started slippin', the classes I be skippin'
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| Tried to tell me that I was a fool, I wouldn’t listen, no
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| As a youngin' I was playin' pretend
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| My wonder years, never woulda thought they could end
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| Back, back in my glory days, way before the haze
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| A good night sleep had me energized for the day
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| When I would look up at the planets in they orbit
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| Before this life got distorted
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| Before the money was a plan
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| Before I ever thought that I would need to be a man
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| Somethin' like a Peter Pan, nah, I ain’t tryna grow up
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| 'Cause bein' old sucks, I just wanna go nuts
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| Before I drank a beer or ever took a hit of weed
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| When entertainment was my mom’s readin' mysteries
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| Takin' you back to them nursery rhymes
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| When I thought the world just deserved to be mine
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| Said I’m takin' you back to them nursery rhymes
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| Back to the beginning, put the verse in rewind
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| Back in the day, when it was a dream
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| Nobody believed in what I could be
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| But now I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha»
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| 'Cause I’ma be okay
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| Back in the day, when it was a dream
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| Nobody believed in what I could be
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| But now I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha»
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| 'Cause I’ma be okay
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| Back in the day, when it was a dream
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| Nobody believed in what I could be
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| But now I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha»
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| I’m laughin' at 'em like, «Ha-ha-ha»
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| Haha, yeah
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| So this goes out to
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| Any of y’all, haha
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| That ain’t tryna get old, haha |